Seoul National University

This course provides students with an understanding of important issues that have shaped contemporary Korean culture and society since the late 20th century. Students examine the country's historical background before attempting to get an overall picture of everyday life in contemporary Korea. The course discusses Korean life as diversely manifest in literature, movies, television, newspapers, magazines, advertising, sports, shopping centers, theme parks, and other forms of popular culture. It emphasizes discovering the ways in which Koreans have responded and adapted to the rapidly changing world. As a part of the course, students visit cultural sites and events relevant to the course content.

Korean sign language is completely different in structure and grammar from the Korean language per se. Korean society is noticeable for linguistic and racial homogeneity, which has led to a low tolerance for the users of foreign languages. Also widespread in Korean society is the pathological approach that recognizes hearing impairment as an abnormal condition requiring medical rehabilitation and normalization. These add to the numerous handicaps and exclusions that the hearing-impaired have to live through in all stages of their life. Learning and sharing sign language is a step towards eliminating the causes of the discrimination and alienation to which the hearing-impaired are exposed. In other words, it helps us better understand the language, lifestyle, and cultures of the specific minority group whose presence in society is otherwise not easily visible. By learning a manual-visual language, students familiar with oral-aural languages obtain a new understanding of human communication systems. They also have an opportunity to appreciate the values and possibilities of Korean sign language by exploring its historical development and methods of word formation, along with diverse subcultures of hearing-impaired communities.

This course enables students to develop nuanced understandings of human/non-human “rights” and how they work, as well as their “responsibilities” as global citizens in their respective societies. It offers interdisciplinary explorations of how rights and responsibilities are relevant in helping to understand and solve some of our contemporary world’s most pressing problems. 

This seminar addresses how specific historical events are commemorated in Southeast Asia and beyond (China, Japan, Korea). Students learn how historical memory is shaped by textbooks, museums, memorial sites, and debated in film, television and other forms of cultural production. This courses offers a n overview of the country's history at the beginning of each session.

Modern dance arose as a contradiction to ballet, where free expression takes precedence over structure. This course aims to maintain students' proper body alignment and improve expression through modern dance. 

This course teaches the principles of software development for medium to large software design and implementation. Students apply these principles to software systems in practice by working on group projects. Through this experience, students learn how to build correct and high-performance software.

This course introduces fundamental ideas and principles in the study of cognitive development and its neural basis. The course delves into the innate developmental origins of domain-specific cognitive abilities and examines how they change over the course of brain maturation, experience, individual differences, and neurological dysfunction.

This class concentrates on the Latin American modern novel. The course analyzes and studies the relations between society and the works of Borges, Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, and Isabel Allende.

This course studies industrial policy and management through case studies. Topics include the significance and issues of industrial policy, the global value chain that affects industrial policy, the digital economy following the 4th industrial revolution, the low-carbon economy due to climate change, and the circular economy perspective in consideration of the earth's limitations in natural raw material mining. The present status and future implications of Korea's industrial policy through comparative review with domestic and foreign industrial policies are checked through case studies of major industrial policies.

This course discusses theories and empirical analyses of various labor market issues.